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Re: Retool AI

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post #21

My personal opinion (besides this constant flux of Retool product announcements) is that I truly tried and gave Retool a chance... but man, it was tough to get started, I rather just code from scratch with some boilerplate.

Have you tried Windmill?

No, not yet! Thx for the recc

Re: Retool AI

#42
post #40

Can someone who's been there tell me how the "Trusted by developers, startups, and Fortune 500s" works? How does Retool (or any company) get another company's logo here?

You ask for permission from your contact/champion at the company, or at contract time. You might offer a discount if you’re in contract negotiations. Getting permission is definitely not a sure thing and might require some luck or savvy, or having a champion with clout (director, VP, etc…)

It’s also very common for a small team (or individual) at a large company to use a tool, and the tool can plaster that logo on their homepage even if the use case was insignificant.

For a lot of companies, logos on homepages is more of an “ask for forgiveness later” type of thing. Not uncommon to do it without permission.

It’s also very common for TOS to include the rights to use your company logo for marketing purposes by default.

Re: Retool AI

#43
post #23

My personal opinion (besides this constant flux of Retool product announcements) is that I truly tried and gave Retool a chance... but man, it was tough to get started, I rather just code from scratch with some boilerplate.

Have you tried https://lowdefy.com ? (Shameless plug, co-founder)

Just went through the docs, I love it already.

Re: Retool AI

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post #42
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You ask for permission from your contact/champion at the company, or at contract time. You might offer a discount if you’re in contract negotiations. Getting permission is definitely not a sure thing and might require some luck or savvy, or having a champion with clout (director, VP, etc…)

It’s also very common for a small team (or individual) at a large company to use a tool, and the tool can plaster that logo on their homepage even if the use case was insignificant. For a lot of companies, logos on homepages is more of an “ask for forgiveness later” type of thing. Not uncommon to do it without permission. It’s also very common for TOS to include the rights to use your company logo for marketing purpo…

For us, every single one of the logos we display on https://retool.com has a committed contract with Retool where they agreed to display their logo. (Generally our champion does need to go ask a VP; in return we offer a discount.) 100% of the logos that we show pay us more than $50k a year. (80% of them pay us more than $100k a year, and some % of them pay us more than $1M a year, hah.) We wouldn't want to display their logo otherwise! (Since it'd be misleading, but also because it'd be problematic — if say — Taco Bell engineer came and asked us who exactly is using Retool at Taco Bell.)

(Founder at Retool here.)

Re: Retool AI

#46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just went through the docs, I love it already.

I might actually use it in the next couple of months! I bookmarked it!

Awsome! With Lowdefy we tried to build a low-code framework that works like code. We’ve developed a schema in which to define applications and we’ve built all kinds of apps for enterprise customers. Massive, advanced CRM systems, call centre solutions, ticketing systems, a light MRP, all kinds of survey apps and so many dashboards. Even our docs and our website are Lowdefy apps!

Give Lowdefy a try and reach out it you have any questions or want to see what is possible :) (We need to invest a lot more into content and examples, bootstapping is a grind!)

https://github.com/lowdefy/lowdefy

Re: Retool AI

#47

Can someone who's been there tell me how the "Trusted by developers, startups, and Fortune 500s" works? How does Retool (or any company) get another company's logo here?

Google "[company] logo", download the image and add it to your website.

Re: Retool AI

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might actually use it in the next couple of months! I bookmarked it!

Awsome! With Lowdefy we tried to build a low-code framework that works like code. We’ve developed a schema in which to define applications and we’ve built all kinds of apps for enterprise customers. Massive, advanced CRM systems, call centre solutions, ticketing systems, a light MRP, all kinds of survey apps and so many dashboards. Even our docs and our website are Lowdefy apps! Give Lowdefy a try and reach out it yo…

I'm also bootstrapping so I feel you, will reach out to you via email or something ;)

Re: Retool AI

#49
post #35

I'd love a template for: 1. Select internal document sources you want to ingest (Notion/Slab, specific Slack channels, named Google Docs in a folder) 2. Enable Q&A + augmented retrieval in response 3. Serve to end users in a Slack channel at our company

You can do this with LLMStack. We are adding the datasource handlers to pull data from Google docs etc., Slack integration is built in. More info at https://llmstack.ai/docs/apps/integrations/slack. Happy to chat if you have questions.
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